Giving Your VOTE Over to the Oil and Gas Industry

October 29, 2012

Commentary: On Becoming an Energy Citizen? By S. Thomas Bond, Citizen Farmer, Citizen Chemist, and Citizen Voter There’s a lot of twisted stuff going on this election time. One of the most curious is something called Energy Citizens 2012. You get a mailer from the American Petroleum Institute which is an unembarrassed plug for burning [...]

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WV Water Research Institute Now Monitoring Ohio and Allegheny Rivers

October 28, 2012

The West Virginia Water Research Institute at West Virginia University, with the help of the Colcom Foundation, is expanding its successful Monongahela River water quality monitoring program to include the upper Ohio and Allegheny rivers. The Institute developed the Quality Useful Environmental Study Teams program – known as QUEST – in response to growing concern over total dissolved solids [...]

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West Virginia Fracking: State and Industry Fail to Keep Public Informed

October 27, 2012

West Virginia Fracking: State and Industry Fail to Keep Public Informed  From: SkyTruth. See here for full article with tables and photo. In June 2012, SkyTruth wrote that voluntary hydraulic fracturing “fracking” chemical disclosures from FracFocus.org were only covering approximately 43 percent of unconventional wells drilled in Pennsylvania. Only 54 percent of wells drilled submitted a report, [...]

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Dominion Resources Planning Startup for Separation Plant in Marshall County

October 26, 2012

Dominion Planning for Startup of New Separation Plant at Natrium WV By Casey Junkins, Staff Writer for the Wheeling Intelligencer, October 25, 2012. NATRIUM – More than 900 construction workers are now building the $500 million Dominion plant with plans to have it ready to process 200 million cubic feet of wet gas per day [...]

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Subject: The Anxiety of Doddridge County People

October 25, 2012

*** The Anxiety of Doddridge County People   *** By: S. Tom Bond, October 20, 2012 Tom Pyle, president, Institute for Energy Research, published a letter to the editor, in the Charleston Gazette, which is shown below. His little spiel had to do with “activists congregated in Doddridge County.” Using a few of the industry’s oft-repeated [...]

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Common Sense Commentary: The Fracking Industry Isn’t Honest About Government Support

October 24, 2012

The Mom & Pop Farm The Fracking Industry Isn’t Honest About Government Support By Jim Hightower, as published in the on-line blog “other words” of the Institute for Policy Studies As they drill for quick corporate profits deep inside our Earth, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and other titans of the natural gas hydraulic fracturing industry are harming people’s [...]

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WV DEP Has Not Filled Five Oil & Gas Inspector Jobs

October 23, 2012

State Hiring Regulations Are Problematic Regarding Experience and Pay Rates This article by David Beard appeared in the Morgantown Dominion Post on October 20th:   Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said it’s on pace to hire more gas well inspectors following the passage of the Natural Gas Horizontal Well Control Act. But two hiring obstacles still [...]

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Report Identifies Problems with Oil and Gas Enforcement

October 22, 2012

Report Identifies Problems with Oil and Gas Enforcement   Lisa Sumi of Earthworks and the Oil and Gas Depletion Center has prepared a report on Oil and Gas regulatory enforcement entitled “Breaking All the Rules.”  The 124 page report compares regulation and enforcement in six states, Colorado, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. [...]

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Five Weird and Frightening Effects of Shale Drilling & Fracking

October 21, 2012

Methane Geyser, Tioga Co. PA Five Weird and Frightening Effects of Fracking  >> From Alternet.org and GlobalPossibilities.org, October 20, 2012 << What comes to mind when you think of fracking? Perhaps it’s images of tap water being lit on fire or stories of families suffering health problems after nearby wells are fracked. Indeed, the health [...]

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2012 WV Water Research Conference: October 30 & 31 in Morgantown

October 20, 2012

WV Water Research Conference: October 30-31  Location: Waterfront Place Hotel, Morgantown, WV The 2012 West Virginia Water Research Conference is a statewide event for researchers, policy makers, regulators, agencies and the public. They can share in the latest information, technologies and research relating to the challenges we face to protect our state’s water resources. This [...]

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